Word: voyeurs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times. Nothing like Powell's enterprise has been seen in English letters since Dickens and Trollope went bashing out their three-decker serials. His talents are rare without being exotic. He is neither a visionary nor a voyeur, but an observer-civil, ironic, amused, curious. By now, he seems to know his characters so well that he has developed a sort of courtesy toward them. Critic Pritchett has warned him of this danger-of the "risk that his characters will become so familiar and real to him that...